Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...easy, conversational tone the President said that he had gratifying news from the iron, steel and textile industries about the workings of the NRA. This produced blank stares only until the quicker-witted correspondents started to laugh at the President's little joke. Seriously he then announced the exchange at 11:50 p. m. the night before of five sets of diplomatic notes at the White House between himself and chubby, thick-tongued Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Secretary of State Hull's absence from the U. S. left...
...issue has a faintly liberal tone. An editorial about the "vast unruffled dullness of the Harvard student" utilizes the favorite escape-mechanism of the contemporary intellectual: it supposes that the human race will be otherwise if the capitalistic system is destroyed. The dictatorship of the proletariat is to the romantics of the moment what solitude and the noble savage were to their prototypes a century and a half ago. It is far from that to those who are really working to bring it about, and I, for one should welcome any expression at Harvard of their realism. Mr. Strauss...
...success in Vienna. People were impressed by the enormous chorus. They liked the tender love motifs. But by the time Schönberg was on the way to becoming a popular composer he had lost his taste for conventional harmonies. He started working on the 12-tone scale, gave up the idea that there had to be a dominant keynote, took the stand that dissonance was a logical development in music...
Bonfils himself long regaled the nation's press with his front page italic editorials, invariably headed in mammoth red type "So The People May Know," always referring to other newsprints as "foreign owned," uniformly hectic in tone and quick in results. Such an editorial blocked the construction of the Denver Court House by fulminating against a legal peccadillo in the architects' charter, another on the Denver tramways inflamed a great mob to a lynching mood. Bonfils was the first editor to smell the Teapot Dome disturbance, and the clothespin on his nose cost half a million dollars. When the story...
...York's courts with the racketeers is far less savoury. But our great sectional patriotism, the same that dictates the restriction of Congressional choice to the residents of the electing district, stands in the way of cutting down the jurisdiction of local courts. Everywhere the impartiality and tone of the Federal Courts challenges the plain conclusion which we are unwilling to accept, that in the complex conditions of a new society the local courts, barometers of every form of sectional insanity and weakness, are not up to the business of dispensing our justice. If the Scottsboro trial is held...